Chelyabinsk region resident gets 5-year sentence for aiding terrorist organization
CHELYABINSK. July 27 (Interfax) - The Moscow District Military Court pronounced its verdict convicting a Chelyabinsk resident after the visiting proceedings in the city.
The man was found guilty of participation in Hizb ut-Tahrir organization.
It was established by the court that in 2011, Rustam Sinakayev, a resident of Chelyabinsk Region, had started participating in the organization, which had been recognized as a terrorist organization and banned in Russia, the press service of the regional Prosecutor's Office said in a statement on Monday.
"During 2011-2012, Sinakayev was hosting several religious and political classes in his own apartment where he kept and studied books of the said organization," the statement said.
He also supplied money for publishing reading materials recognized as extremist materials, the statement said.
Sinakayev was charged under the Criminal Code's Article on "participation in activities of a religious group, which was prohibited by a court ruling due to pursuit of extremist activities." In addition, he was charged with "participating in an organization which under the Russian laws is considered a terrorist organization".
The Court sentenced Sinakayev to five years in a general regime penal colony, fining him 20,000 rubles.